Pastoral Resources

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.